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coasts of the Mediterranean. In that disease, we see reason to believe, 

 that the poison enters by the skin, because swellings of the lymphatic 

 glands are amongst its most prominent 'symptoms ; because oily frictions 

 on the skin are said to be preservative against it, and that carriers or 

 workers in oil do not take the disease. 



When the poison is received into the constitution, through whatever 

 channel it may enter, its effects are actually not very dissimilar in some 

 cases to those from the bite of a serpent. The aggravated cases of yel- 

 low fever at Antigua, mentioned in this paper, and those that have fre- 

 quently occurred at St Lucia and Martinique, from the bite of the large 

 brown viper of these islands, ran a course not without some resemblance, 

 in the impaired nervous energy, the vomitings, and dissolution of the 

 blood, as marked by the livid discoloration s under the skin, (hence the 

 very improper name of Yellow Fever), and its discharge from the internal 

 surfaces previous to the fatal termination. 



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